Over the last decade, grape growers in SE South Australia have had their water entitlements converted to volumetric allocations, experienced a reduction in annual rainfall and seen a rise in the salinity of groundwate

In this issue: Finding order in the chaos: Australia's regional climate; A farewell to Harm; Why has 2006 been so dryΓ; Flexible feedbase options for dairy farmers; The Wet crystal ball

Raingrown cotton in Northwest NSW and Southwest Queensland is not grown on metre beds, rarely has aerial applications, relies to a large extent on stored water, uses little or no fertiliser and large areas are harvest

As the first presentation on this topic I would like to very briefly outline the major advantages of producing an early crop.

This paper reports the initial results from testing different versions of the SIRATAC pest management system in the Namoi Valley for two seasons the experiments were designed to investigate the ability of the program